To make a long story short, he's a loopy commie lib.
It’s good to get the straw man set up in the first paragraph like that. If he waited, his liberal audience might get confused.
Nice try CNN, but it is the government created entitlement mentality that’s given us the mess that both healthcare and the larger economy are today.
Free market drive to succeed for one’s own benefit is the only reason we have left what we do.
It wasn't government that gave us nearly 50 million uninsured Americans and denials for pre-existing conditions. …Yes it was. Even Wikipedia can’t deny that FDR’s wage controls resulted in the rise of the morass of employer healthcare, just for starters.
This guy lives in a fact free zone. ie he’s a lib.
The real problem is that it is not affordable. Should be called the “Prohibitively Expensive Act”.
and here is the Number One Problem with Liberals::
“Every one of our peer nations”
WE HAVE NO PEER NATIONS, America Stands Alone in the fight for FREEDOM.
Wow. I never see synthetic plagiarism from intellectual sieves who rely mental crutches.
“Concierge” Health Care is the wave of the future (and really just a throwback to the 50’s).
This article is just a bunch of lies.
That’s exactly right—no concept of reality.
Website broken or not is not the issue. It still remains a plan where one man pays for another. The point blank definition of Marxist. Millions will have their plans recancelled a year from now—those whose states complied. Many are already out of luck. Premiums will skyrocket. I have gotten many comments back asking where my proof is? The millions who are already paying higher premiums. The millions of cancellations—or soon to be. The fact the man lied—on tape. And the employer mandate hasn’t hit yet which is where the other large boot falls right on the American head. Now if you’re one of the parasites feeding off of us producers I’m sure you will defend ACA. As welfare receipients will defend welfare. Because that is the parasite mentality and there is no point even commenting back. Many argue that the healthcare system is broken—prior to ACA. With premiums and monopolies. They would be correct. And frankly neither party will address the real issues. But telling one man to pay for another is not the answer—it’s Marxism no matter how you try to spin that it is not. My fiction may become a reality as it did based on my avid research in history of 1917—Russia.
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They are retreating from Obamacare and trying to shift the argument back to the opposition.
This should have been done years ago before they crammed the law through and down the throats of Americans.
Unfortunately, the republicans are stupid and don’t know how to counter this.
The conservatives should counter that we have the finest and most advanced healthcare system in the world which is being demolished by fantasy preachers of universal utopia.
Govt has been involved in health care for decades. you could say we already had a partially socialized system. And this is exactly why costs were high.
Drive govt out and costs will fall once again.
“It wasn’t government that gave us nearly 50 million uninsured Americans and denials for pre-existing conditions.”
Paul Waldman doesn’t know how to build a logical argument. Whose fault is that?
By definition you can not “insure” a pre-existing condition. You really need to focus on the health maintenance side of that. There’s no way to account for insuring something you know will happen without subsidy from another group. As to uninsured otherwise, setting mandates for minimum coverage does the opposite of making it affordable. So again, you need subsidies.
But Paul Waldman said it ain’t the government so it must not be!
Moron.
“peer nations”—Second time I’ve seen the phrase today. They must have stressed this at the meeting all the lib a$$ kissing ‘journalists’ attended last month.
And who is to say that allowing insurance companies to compete across state lines, and having reasonable tort reform won’t work, a leftist dork? It would certainly work better than Obamacare, abusive big government and Democrat tyranny. Forcing people to do what the state thinks is best for them when they can’t afford it, don’t want it, and know they can do better, is typical leftist lunacy.
Listen up leftists, Obama’s Democratcare isn’t going to work. A single payer system isn’t going to work, so you better extract your heads from Obama’s butt, and work with conservatives and the free market to get something that will work.
Healthcare as a problem is largely a supply-side problem. The barriers to entry into the healthcare market are so high that the supply of services is extremely tight. This is largely due to regulation, licensing that limits the supply, and huge capital costs I terms of tine and education. India produces many more doctors and engineers than we do and medical costs are extremely low, for example. The quality of care is very good. Reduce the barriers to entry and the system gets cheaper.
I think a strong case could be made that it is the government that cause that
There is absolutely no reason to discuss "free-market solutions" in the context of almost any insurance coverage. ObamaCare only magnifies a problem that already exists in the U.S. and isn't going to get any better no matter how hard we try to convince ourselves otherwise. The REAL problem with our health care system is that it is built on third-party payment as the norm -- regardless of whether that third party is a government or a private company.
All of the basic principles of economics get thrown out the window once you eliminate the direct relationship between the buyer (the patient) and the seller (the medical professional). Once you have a third party involved, the buyer no longer considers pricing and quality together, and the seller no longer worries about quality because payments are made under a rate schedule that has nothing to do with quality.
To the progressive, freedom itself is the problem. It is intolerable. Regulate, dictate, ban, limit, total equality of condition.